Yolk Recruitment
Technical Author
Job Description
Salary: £52,000 - 52,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience as a Technical Author, Technical Writer, or in a similar technical documentation role
- Ability to understand technical concepts and work with engineers and technical specialists to gather information for accurate documentation
- Relevant experience in areas such as cloud and on-premises environments, Azure, IT infrastructure and operations, SaaS and client-server applications, technical and user-focused documentation, Confluence, Markdown, Git/GitHub, Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365, or SharePoint Online
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with people at different organisational levels, from technical specialists to senior stakeholders
- Ability to work independently, ask effective questions, and identify opportunities to improve documentation or processes
- Create and maintain technical documentation, system guides, processes, specifications, and operational documentation
- Work with technical teams and subject matter experts to understand complex systems and processes
- Translate technical information into clear, concise, accessible content for different audiences
- Establish and maintain documentation standards, style guidelines, and best practices
- Review and improve existing documentation using feedback, support tickets, and stakeholder interviews
- Manage documentation through version control and keep content aligned with system and software changes
- Review, edit, and proofread documentation to maintain a consistently high standard
- Identify opportunities to improve how technical documentation is created, managed, and accessed
- Work with stakeholders across technical teams, operations, senior management, and end users
- Azure
- Cloud
- Confluence
- DevOps
- Git
- GitHub
- Support
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint
- Office 365
More:
We are a leading organisation operating in a highly technical, business-critical environment and are expanding our Technical Operations function. We offer a permanent, hybrid Technical Author role based in South Wales, working across Azure, datacentres, end-user computing, and on-premises systems. This newly expanding function offers the opportunity to shape documentation standards, improve processes, and influence how technical knowledge is documented and shared across the organisation.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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Yolk Recruitment
Cardiff
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£52,000
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£55,000
UK median
This salary is 5% below the UK median for UK tech roles (£55,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks